Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-07-02
A TALE OF DESOLATION.
AralsS ssvIsW 0F rHs ASCisNr
ORpRs or aiRERSIASs.
A Newspaper Man Contributes us rrss'-
nony to That Of Rev. rather McDermou
~ to some Of the Ubiquitous frscticss
Of rnis society In This state.
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Catholic clergy uan who like him mtnistered
In the Schuylkill county coal regions during
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that oTHAnizNion, which. While IL oia not
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Schuylkill, at least gave them susteusnce
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Father McDermot wrote III letter puo
lished May ii, le16, "The Ancient Order Cf
piberu,ans Ia a aiahoIical secret snciety and
a, a. avayvwhere tho sams soc,stv In sn;r;,
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snu eo'e'uneu" AHe >a''o.'o Neies sueu
stationed In the coal regions oid everything
In their power to destroy the or Ter. True,
the motto OF the organic alton is " Friendship,
latte an, T,,a Chr,s,ia, char,tr,, o,, a.,
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ske OF the sacraihshts OF the church az least
once year. But all the mottoes and by.
laws 10 the universe can't alter the ipcontTC-
yertiblo fact that every Mpllie Mayuire WAS
an influential mambsr nf tha snc,s,v rr
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'".' " ,.iee AAi0" "fis"'. w S ''''0' "'.h
sFecies Vi n'oiat oi'uuness OF i""ecH''s' '"r'
when moled in formidable convention to
agree upon the murders OF o. iarliou able
persons. and to select their mutdeTers, the
proceedipcs were opened With solemn
prayer, all the delegates going upon their
knees.
The depth and strength of their love for
their church il proba, " best shown by the
fact tina, one of lts mini.ters-I think hs was
Father O'Couner OF Mshanoy Pane hu, I
am not surs-was fred upin by MoIlie
Mspuirs assassin while he wss performing
,no sscritire of the mass uis ,tf.u.a IVA.
that he had condemned the order from the
nnlpit and had threatened to r,n1 from the
| Altar the names of those anon. his parish.
iona,s beloooinp To IL Patrick Hester
| county delegate from Columbia. a tax col,
iector and a man ot means and ir rtInence
| vhen a deceased mem her of his body was
| refnsed Cbris,ian buri.I by a Catholic prisst.
7 think ba vas F.thar L rs,h of Sham6kip
.wora that the fnnsr., shonId ,aEs nIaca as
| nronosed He byoke into the caru.terv and
The bodv was interred For thfs ,fra,;ss he
vas sent m the nsniien,isry
Wars st,srwards whsn NcP,,lan,s rave.
| lations brnnpht abo,,, the xhoIsssle arrests nj
| MALTA AZ Maou,ras U.s,ar waa ,us an in custody
ui,e tnr ,he mn,dar ., aIsYarssr Rss n cnmmi,,aS M
| a;obt years heiora An Incident in this con
| nact,on iiIpstra,es s,ro,aIv tha sircari,v ot
the tirn faitb the state anfboritias nod in ,bs
| CathoIic cIervyrs denupciation of the mem
| mars of tho :, ncient Order of the Hiberni.ns
II mns. bs horne i'm mind that the MoIIie
HaouiTe mnrdsrers wisIded a strong politi
cal in fuence in the coal rsoions all "a il
has heen nub,tciv tes,itisd 10 noliticsI nsrtss
bsrtered Tor their favor. When Hester the
| rich and nrosperous Hester. was condemned
| TO die. an enormous pressure was Brought TO
hear 10 SECURE a 3 ,,ninu.ation of his sentence
The Rosrd NJ paraops vas inflsxible and
| Governor Hartrantt declined to interfere. 1t
| ia true that Hester had eight wears before
been arrested for the crime and then 1t could
| not he proved apaipst him But that was be.
| fore McParlap's Iynx ewes had penetrstesi
| the moral as we'll as the material darkness OF
| the coal pits But the fact that after such q
lapse OF time between the commission OF the
| deed and the arrest of the alleged perpetra
, | tor a mistake might be made was yiyidl =
presen te.i To the Governor. and finally a feW
, dsys before that fixed tor the hanging, he
| sent word to Father och-I think it was by
| teIegraph-that IL he would in any vay eX.
| press his belief that Pat Hester was innocent,
| an executive warrant would stop the execu.
ton, Father Koch never answered tha,
| message He did not think il his duty as a
| minister of God TO saw that he thought the
man guilty: he could not saw he Thought
him innocent and he did not And Hester
was hanged.
| This action of Father Koch served another
| con yicted man in good stead When Peter
McMsnus and John O. Neil we're in Sunbury
isil / visited them several dsys before that
liked for their hanging. / became at once
| convinced tina. O Neil WAS mental i'm beetle,
| entirely IRE. ponsipls tor his ac;s. and /
through the public press created some sym-
| patby in his behalf The governor again re-
ferrsd d the matter to Father Koch, and the
| pood priest said that the man ought not 10
| be hanged, A repreye arrived tho next day,
| and had the satisfaction OF being one of the
| two who conyeyed the news To the prisoner.
/ Next morning McManus was hanged. sub.
| seouen,Iv O'Nsii's sentence Was cnmmuted
| 10 imprisonment ior life. He was brought To
the Esstern penitentiary and there hs ,iiea a
few wears ago of sottsning of the brain. He
| was the onTy Mollie Mcguire convicted OF
| murder who escaped the esllowa
know that tue mem6ers of tho Ancient
| Order of Hiperrlsps will feel very Indignant
| At what have said to you l know that th ey
| will repeat the motto aud the 10y laws to which
| have referred. / know that they will ssy
that the MOl!ie Maguirss were never recog
| nized by The order. 70 this answer tina,
Jack Kehoe, known ~ "the king of the
Moilie Msguires," was either a body master
| or q county delegate of the Ancient Order OF
| Hibernians in good and influential STANDING .
| during the reign OF terror In the coal regions
extending from ls62 to 1876, and bimsel
| wss actively implicated in the murder of r
w. =. Langdon as early a. 1852. For tha,
| offsnse he was hanged. Daring his term OF
! office a. county delegate he was, assert
| fully recognized az q high official by the state
| delegates OF the order stationed at Pittsburg